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by John Updike (Author) "MEN emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Aug 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140249427
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140249422
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 765,097 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Rabbit" Angstrom, failed hero of "Rabbit Run", is back. He has changed, somewhat for the worse. His marriage is collapsing, his job is becoming redundant and outside pressures disturb his peace of mind; but in the end, he achieves a kind of peace, the peace of exhaustion, perhaps.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Apocalypse redux!, 10 Sep 2008
By Demob Happy "jamesewan" (London / Grenoble) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rabbit Redux (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
`Rabbit Redux` is the second in Updike's quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of America as seen through the eyes of everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Written - as with the other three - at the tale end of one decade (here, the 1960s) and published at the beginning of the next, Redux finds its eponymous anti-hero in suitably chaotic circumstances: his wife has left him for another man, he shacks up with a promiscuous teenage runaway, and her friend, a black radical named Skeeter, moves in with them.

Whereas `Rabbit, Run' was virtually perspiring with dank verisimilitude - all-too queasily human and corporeal - Redux comes across as a kind of maddening metaphorical play. Whereas Rabbit's first adventures concerned intimate, character-driven themes, this second novel is a more representational scenario that reflects the upheaval of the generation. Social dysfunction, free love and black power literally invade Rabbit's smallville suburban address, turning his house into a theatre of the late-1960s psyche.

While Redux doesn't always ring true as a credible study of character, it's air of volatility and hysteria capture the spirit of the period, in which the civil rights movement and the dismantlement of the conservative values of the 1950s were reaching a fever pitch. Whereas `Rabbit, Run' was conspicuously apolitical, Redux is almost all politics, with large sections of the book played out in Rabbit's living room like some kind of deranged allegorical play. Harry Angstrom is still rather passive, buffeted by the events that befall him, but this time he goes along with the trip. Despite losing his job, his house and his wife - albeit temporarily - Rabbit gets a necessary dose of the freedom of the times, hence the redux (from the Latin meaning "brought back, restored") of the title. Profane, provocative and almost pornographic, it is a credit to Updike's writing that this is also intensely imaginative and occasionally beautiful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of post-industrial America, 19 Oct 2001
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Updike's evocative language and ghostly narrative style combine with brilliantly drawn characters to unearth the bleak voice of the post industrial silent majority. Its grim reading. The moral of the story is that in this world of adultery, faded dreams and shattered prospects life continues, is relentless and seldom will man, in this case Rabbit strive to achieve or hold on to anything of lasting consequence.

A brilliant look at the pitfalls of the affluent, leisure society.

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